July 28, 2011

Home Sweet Home Giveaway

We chose objects that represented home. I think "home" has a special meaning for us at Beaducation. Not only do we regard our jobs (and lovely new workspace) like a second home and our co-workers like family, we also want our customers to feel that they have found a home, too.

It's great to talk to our customers and feel like they are old friends. We love sending out product from our home to homes all over the world, and of course we LOVE that Lisa's baby has found a place in so many of your homes and studios.

This nice little collection is ready to come home to you. This bundle includes a Beaducation Original House stamp, a Tiny Heart stamp, a Flower stamp, a brass key charm and a couple of copper blanks to make your own house charm. All you need to do is add your favorite letter set and stamping tools and you are ready to go.

To win, leave us a home-themed comment below. Where is your dream home? What does home mean to you? Where do you craft at home? A favorite quote or saying?

The contest ends Monday, August 1 at 9 AM PST. For extra chances to win, help spread the word through your social media outlets (FB, Twitter, your blog), link back to this post and leave a comment below for each. One comment equals one entry. Good luck!

One of my favorite Irish Proverbs about the thought of home, family and friends:"May your home always be too small to hold all your friends. And may the roof above you never fall in,and those gathered beneath it never fall out."It was part of a toast at our wedding and I always think of it when we fill our house to the brim with family and friends for holidays and birthday. We are very blessed!

for me, Facebook has become a substitute home because I sit at my work desk for long hours, but I can check in frequently to visit with family and friends, and find out what is going with people no matter how remote they may be.

Home to me is where I am safe and comfortable. Where my daughter and Husband are. Where there is endless amounts of love..:) At home I like to craft in the dining room at night after the baby is asleep. My Husband and I are looking to buy our first house soon so maybe I will get my own craft room! Fingers crossed!

Home for me growing up has always been where ever we were together as a family since we have moved alot and now as my children are growing up, I continue with Mom's thought, home is where the family is. Nicole S.ansarha at bendbroadband dot com

There's a saying... Home is where your heart is... That I think is true for everyone. I grew up a block over from where I live now and always knew I wanted to raise my own family in the same area. After looking at what seemed like thousands of homes we finally found one that (almost) felt like home. A few renos and 2 babies and a ton of memories later it's now without a doubt our home. Not so much the house itself but the people that make it worth coming home to when the day is done!

Homes can be so important, so central. I'm not one of those who can have my life in a backpack and travel like a vagabond, not attached to any special place. But I feel I can live anywhere and anyhow just as long as my parental home, our farm, is still here and that I can come back whenever I want. I don't have to live here, just as long as I can take comfort in knowing it's there. That it always will. I can't even imagine what it'd be like not having the farm in the family! I'd be horrible, losing such an important part of my life. While we've never talked about it I've always thought of it as obvious that me or my sis will take over one day, that the place with remain in the family at least throughout our lives.

I do truly believe that home is where your heart lives and currently I am in my dream home raising my family and cherishing every minute of it. I even bead while enjoying family time in the living room.

My home is where my family and friends are. After moving around a lot when I was little, i learned that home was not a physical structure, but any place my heart felt loved and safe...and so today, i try to make my physical structure (and my jewelry) a place where other people's hearts feel loved and safe.

Home is where I bead and where I rest my head. It’s were I bend and burn metal and tuck my kids into bed. Home is where I want to be whenever I’m away. I could sit in my home and bead and bead all day. :)

Hi Lisa & the gang over at Beaducation, first off i would like to say thnaks for all of these amazing giveaways, i hope these giveaways have introduced a new technique to some who may have never had the oppertunity to try stamping b4!my dream home would be on a beach somewhere with a studio right on the beach with my amazing son Jack & daughter Renee who my whole world.I have to say my fave quote came from Lisa herself "dance like no one is watching" i just love that as well "be kind to one another" take care and have a great weekend ttfn Lana

Home is where I do all my creating and most of the inspiration comes from those in my home. My family is a constant source of support and creative muse. Without my home there would be no art in my soul.

At home, I craft in my beloved sunroom. The sunroom has 12 big windows that I get to stare off into while brainstorming. Colorful pictures and decorations fill the room! I've got a big yellow comfy chair and a half in the corner, which is my little happy place. I share my sunroom with my two dogs and cat. I could literally spend all of my time in this one room that means so much to me!

I have a large family ... five kids ... I see home in each of their eyes. They are all but one in their teen years so sometimes it is hectic & stressful ... but I wouldn't leave the comfort of 'my home' for anything!

HOME... My home is cozy, comfortable and welcoming... sometimes too welcoming because people wont leave. lol I would love my home to be in San Diego but it's right here in good ol Wisconsin. I have an office [extra room] in my home and it's messy. I work best in a mess. My favorite stamping tool is the Thumbsaver because without that awesome tool, I wouldn't be able to Stamp, which I love doing. My favorite saying I live by is ''Falling down doesn't make you a failure; not getting up does''. Good luck everyone

Home is a refuge against the rest of the world. It doesn't really matter where it is. As long as it is your "safe place" . Though I have to say after living in our previous home for 22 years and moving to this small house it has been a difficult adjustment. I've always had a craft room, but found it hard to work in while the rest of the family is elsewhere in the house. So there is always a little part of the living room carved out for me and my current project.

My home is my heart. As long as I give and get love from my son and husband I'm home. I also carry my two angel babies in my home wherever I go. Starting this military life will prove that our house will always change, but our home will be stronger than anything we could build.

Home is in Alaska, where Gramma lives with me and my son and a clever little min pin who alerts us to every little noise outside and the occasional noise inside. Our family of four loves our home sweet home!

My home is in Melbourne, Australia and in winter it is where my family and I curl up on the couch and watch a movie together under a nice warm balnket, in the summer it is where we all can wear little and be comfortable in air conditioned comfort, but mostly is is where we enjoy eachothers company and love in our little haven, it might not be much but its ours. :)

My home is a little Mobile Home is in the middle of the woods, in the most beautiful part in the world, north west Montana. Sadly, after almost 40 years in the Us, My heart is still in Southern Germany were I was born and raised.

Our family is where our home is...currently in the San Jose/Campbell Area. Our dream home is somewhere that we can finally own ourselves, but for now, we're quite happy. Crafting on the couch in the family rooms is where all the action happens. The middle of chaos between the 6 year old, miniature poodles and the fun!

Home is always where my family is. And although I love living in Texas, I sometimes wish I lived somewhere it rained a little more. Waiting for a tropical storm right now, hoping it will come far enough north to give us some rain. But I love home. :)

To quote Bon Jovi's song..."It doesn't matter where you are, it doesn't matter where you go,If it's a million miles away or just a mile up the roadTake it in, take it with you when you go,who says you can't go home."

Just discovered Beaducation, LOVE IT! I started crafting in a corner of one room in our home but now have taken over the whole room and the table in the dining room. I have to push everything to one side for the family to eat supper there.

I am a "Home Body" Originally from NY now in Virgina we raised our two kids in our current "Home" I have my "Craft" room, flower & vegetable gardens and two dogs! Home is family and pets all living together!

Home is where the heart is! Truly, where your family and your heart is, that is home. I realized this when my girls left home--- it's not an empty nest, it's just temporarily vacate until they return home for a visit --- that what makes our house a home is because of our family heartstrings. :)

Home to me is where all my loved ones are always there, my husband and my animals. I just moved to a dream cabin in the woods in North Carolina and I am still unpacking! I have an un-finished attic I plan to make into my crafts room. It is very tall and has many windows.My favorite quote is " Make memories because no one can take them away"! I say this after losing all I owned after 911 and reflecting back on my memories of them.Smiles, Cyndi

We have made this house our home - It is where we spend time together as a family. It is our cozy retreat. Home is wherever my husband and kids are. We dont need a lot of room, just each other.es1237 at gmail dot com

We built our dream home 7 years ago - a beautiful Colonial. But then we developed a new dream :). Now we'd love to have a farmstead with a much smaller house - but one that would still allow me to have a craft room of course.

I would like to have a home on the water somewhere in a nice climate. Home is where my husband, son and animals are. I don't have a craft room so I do most o make work in my bedroom. My favorite saying is: "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away""

My home is in Massachusetts where my family is...also in California where I left my heart and the place my extended family is ...would love to be able to live 1/2 the year in each place. I have an awesome little workshop I carved out in a room my husband created in the basement.. It is my refuge :0)

"Home is where the heart is", one of my favorite quotes.I create in a corner ( a nook) in our home. Just off from the living room, I guess I would call it the dining room space. As my skills and creativity goes, so does my need for more space!

My home is where I can be myself evry single minute, it's where I feel at my ease. I feel at home when I know that people won't judge me if I make some mistake and will help me out rather than point the finger. My bead table is a part of my home. I can express myself in my particular way and I know that anyone can interfere with what I do.

My home is a place that is constantly changing, evolving even. It's not the last home, but was our first. It's the transition home to something a little bigger, roomier and hopefully home-ier. It's the place that my children bring friends, that family gathers and that our closest friends (who are basically family) come to eat, play and laugh. It's the place that I have learned to be a mother and wife. A cook, a decorator, a nurse and all of the other titles that I can think of. It's the "Green" house. It's the place of love and safety in our lives.It's HOME.

When i married hubby 20 years ago he was in the early years of his military days. For us, "home was where we lay our head " we made each house a home no matter how odd it may have been, or how long we would be there.

"There's no place like home!" Even though our 4 children have grown and left our nest, I still include them in the word home- along with our 3 dogs and cat!! Home is where I can be me- good, bad or ugly. When I come home at the end of a crazy day, I can take a deep breath and it helps remind me of what's truly important in life.

Home is very full right now! Our empty nest has lots of chicks...My Marine came home with his family and we've combined households for a bit while they get on their feet. I am so blessed to get to be a part of their lives for a while.

For me home is where I let my hair down and feel at peace. My craft room is upstairs in my home and is a place that I get to visit rarely. When I do enter my 5 year old often follows and side by side we get inspired by the things in front of us. We create and enjoy. We are calm and there are no struggles. When I allow myself to take the time to enter, my craft room is like my meditation.